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History of Western Science by John Gribbin

This book celebrates the towering geniuses whose dogged dedication and staggering leaps of the imagination have opened our eyes to the universe we live in. John Gribbin begins in 1543, the year when Copernicus announced that the sun, not the earth, was at the centre of the known universe and when Vesalius published the first accurate anatomy of the human body based on dissection and observation. Each leads on to the next great innovator: Copernicus to Galileo, Vesalius to Harvey and the circulation of the blood. As Gribbin says, ‘science is made by people, not people by science’. Revelling in the colourful, the eccentric and the unsung, he tells the human stories of science: Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler boosting his income with self-confessed ‘silly and empty’ horoscopes; Marie Curie forced to study alone for fear she would ‘excite’ male students Gribbin’s style is lively and clear, filled with absorbing anecdotes and flashes of humour. Yet he manages to pack the pages with almost 500 years of science, encompassing every discovery and theory from the simple, yet essential telescope, through mind-stretching theories of relativity and quantum mechanics, right up to the mapping of the human genome.

Features;

• Folio Society First Edition No. 1343
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2006
• Quarter Blue Leather with Cloth Sides Hardback, 706 pp
• With colour plates representative of the progress of science
• Size 250 x 175mm, 1.9kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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